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THE KREMLIN ANTAGONIZES OBAMA ADMINISTRATION WITH IMPUNITY
By Pavel Felgenhauer
May 15, 2013
Last-minute efforts during recent meetings with President Vladimir Putin by British Prime Minister David Cameron, his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu and ...
SHALE KEY TO ENERGY INDEPENDENCE
Courtesy of The Baltic Times
May 15, 2013
The development of shale gas in Europe could help the continent obtain better deals from its current key supplier, the Russian giant Gazprom, EU Energy C...
SAEIMA ADOPTS PROVISIONS ON RECOGNITION OF DUAL CITIZENSHIP
Press Release by the Republic of Latvia Saeima
May 9, 2013
On Thursday, 9 May, the Saeima in the final reading adopted amendments to the Citizenship Law that recognize dual citizenship, set forth...
LATVIAN FOREIGN MINISTER RINKEVICS AND COMMANDER OF US TRANSPORTATION COMMAND RATE POSITIVELY THE COOPERATION IN TRANSIT VIA NORTHERN DISTRIBUTION NETWORK
By the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia
May 3, 2013
On 3 May, Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics met with General William M. Fraser III, USAF, Commander of the United States Transportation Co...
FOREIGN MINISTER RINKEVICS CALLS ON RUSSIA TO DEMONSTATE GREATER OPENNES REGARDING ZAPAD 2013
MINISTSRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF LATVIA
Aprils 24, 2013
On 23 April, Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics took part in the NATO Foreign Ministers Meeting in Brussels, at which the ministers discussed...
RUSSIA EXPELS ESTONIAN DIPLOMAT
By Nikolaus von Twickel and Europe Online
April 18, 2013
Moscow (dpa) - Russia has expelled a senior Estonian diplomat, the Foreign Ministry of the small Baltic nation said on Thursday, a step wh...
THE TRIUMPH OF GOOD ECONOMICS: "AUSTERE" BALTIC STATES OUTGROW THEIR EUROPEAN NEIGHBORS
By Doug Bandow
April 15, 2013
The Eurozone crisis continues, like the rerun of a bad soap opera. The only constants are bail-outs and rosy scenarios. Maybe Greece will hang onto the Euro at the...
ILVES BESTOWS MEDAL OF HONOR ON NATO COMMANDER
By Estonian Public Broadcasting
April 17, 2013
In Kadriorg today, President Toomas Hendrik Ilves presented admiral James Stavridis, NATO's supreme allied commander in Europe, the first class Orde...
RUSSIA RETALIATES AGAINST U.S., BANS AMERICAN OFFICIALS
By Will Englund
April 13, 2013
MOSCOW -- As promised, Russia responded in kind Saturday to the announcement of American sanctions against 18 Russian officials by banning an equal number of Americ...
A lesson in public e-policy
By Frederic Filloux
April 15, 2013
Estonia is run like a corporation, but its president believes government must play a crucial role in areas of digital policy such as secure ID.
Toomas Hen...